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George F Sunkel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$225k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations George F Sunkel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$17k0%
FY20249$16k11%
FY202312$17k8%
FY202210$17k20%
FY202110$15k40%
FY20208$15kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$30kEducation$17kArts & Culture$12kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$7kHousing & Shelter$7kHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to George F Sunkel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George F Sunkel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About George F Sunkel Foundation

How much does George F Sunkel Foundation give?
George F Sunkel Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $17,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does George F Sunkel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are George F Sunkel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Network of Community Ministries Inc ($12k), Clarksville Food Pantry Inc ($7k), Family Promise of Grayson County ($5k).
Does George F Sunkel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George F Sunkel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as George F Sunkel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is George F Sunkel Foundation based?
George F Sunkel Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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